Word: lightweights
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...thus minimizing the pollution caused by stop-and-go driving. The gasoline engine powers the battery and kicks in for acceleration. When the car coasts or brakes, the motor becomes a generator, capturing the energy that would normally be lost and transforming it into electricity. In the Insight, a lightweight but superefficient three-cylinder, 63-h.p. gas engine supplies most of the oomph, and the electric motor offers a 10-h.p. boost when needed...
eTrex Summit GARMIN, $267 Combination global-positioning system, altimeter and compass in one lightweight, waterproof device. Easy to use and read...
...Mobile Phone SAMSUNG, $149 Surf the Web in style using this lightweight, elegant phone. Comes with voice-activated dialing, memo recording and a small but easy-to-read screen...
COOL LAPS INVENTOR: RAY NOVOTNY For the literal-minded few who insist on actually propping their laptop computers on their laps, the consequence can be an extreme case of warm thighs. The Laptop Soft-Seat, made of lightweight aluminum, absorbs the excess heat and keeps computers and knees cool. So does a table, but then that was invented a while...
Detractors say that Harris, despite her Harvard master's degree in public administration, has the rep of a country-club lightweight whose only exercise of "discretion" until now has been "pearls or diamonds?" "She was completely unprepared for both this job and this crisis," says Scher. Even some of her friends agree. Says one in the state capital: "She is in so far over her head that it's hard not to think that every move she makes is orchestrated by the Bushes and the Republicans...